Chorizo Butter

Recipe: A Smoky, Savoury Spread Made With Goan Chorizo

Once you make a chorizo butter recipe, you will wonder how you lived without it all your life. It's smoky, rich and just salty enough to turn a plain slice of bread into a nice meal. This recipe doesn’t require special technique, or a long list of ingredients, and comes together easily in just a few minutes. Goan chorizo, also known as chouriço is a cured sausage with roots in Goa's Portuguese heritage. There are red chillies, vinegar and spices such as cumin and pepper in it, which ensures a more complex and sharp taste. If you have a good Goan chorizo sausage and want to use it up, this recipe is definitely worth trying. The spices in the chorizo recipe really do much of the work. As a result, you will find that the butter tastes far deeper than the work you did to make it. Smoked paprika adds a rich, smoky flavour and colour, and the half portion of garlic brings it all together. This chorizo butter recipe requires very little effort. There's no stove and no cook, no time to wait and watch. All you do is mix together softened butter, chopped cured chorizo, a little garlic and smoked paprika until smooth, roll it up in parchment paper and put it in the fridge. That's genuinely it. You just have to do 10 minutes of real work and in the end you will have something delectable that will last you the whole week.